New and old ways to preserve. I learned a new technique to preserve our cucumbers from a friend (Thanks Pam!) Lacto fermentation is the art of pickling with salt. I put up a gallon and a quart of cucumbers. I basically salted them with non-iodized salt, put them in a jar, filled it with water and added a weight to the top to hold them below the water. In this case it was sandwich bags with glass marbles in them.
My husband keeps bringing in the tomatoes so we are preserving them by making tomatoes with green chilies, spaghetti sauce, dried tomatoes and catsup.
We took some time out (a whole day and a half) to visit some friends in the mountains and we enjoyed our time with the Kalmus family. Karin took me to some local shops and I was able to buy some buckwheat honey and goat cheese. They also sent some of their blueberry plants home with us and an incubator that is so old, my retired husband did his masters research with it. . .Dr. K was my husband's adviser in college. Such memories! We also brought home some blueberry plants from their blueberry bush that puts on berries as late as September.
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